Clinic RN

Join a Mission-Driven Team Creating Real Change

Be part of a growing organization committed to creating positive change for vulnerable communities. At the Gilbert Centre, you'll help strengthen health outcomes for people who are often failed by traditional healthcare systems—and you'll do it alongside a supportive, interdisciplinary team that values your expertise.

This isn't assembly-line nursing. You'll build genuine relationships with clients, meet people where they are (sometimes literally—in shelters, homes, or community spaces), and see the direct impact of your work in treatment completion and lives changed.

• Wage: $40/hour at 28 or 35 hours/week (0.8 or 1.0 FTE)
• Benefits:
  Canada Life – Health, Dental, Vision, Drugs
• Paid Time Off: 3 weeks vacation, 3 weeks sick, and 1 week float (annualized)
• Professional development opportunities and cross-departmental collaboration

This role falls within the bargaining unit, CUPE Local .

We are seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Clinic Team. The RN will provide front line nursing, outreach, testing and health promotion, to clients living with, or are at risk of contracting HCV and HIV.

The Clinic RN works with an interdisciplinary team focusing on the needs of people who are significantly marginalized by poverty, substance use, mental health, and houselessness. The RN will support individuals along the continuum of care from prevention, initial diagnosis, treatment and disease management using a harm reduction and trauma-informed approach. High level of engagement with the clients is essential for successful Hepatitis C and HIV treatment and is a role expectation.

The Clinic Nurse works as a member of a multidisciplinary team supported by a Nurse Practitioner, Care Coordinators, Linkage to Care, and Clinic Support Worker. The successful candidate will act with professionalism and courtesy toward clients, the general public and colleagues and will demonstrate knowledge and valuing of the client's life situation.

Working to a full scope of practice, the RN will provide comprehensive primary care nursing assessments including analysis of health behaviours related to lifestyle and culture, review of client's medical history, physical assessments, nursing diagnosis, and in collaboration with the client, develop and implement the care plans.

• Have the ability to work independently under medical directives to screen for HCV, HIV and other STBBIs, provide test results, order pre- and post-treatment workup, and administer vaccines
• Ability to triage and consult Nurse Practitioner as needed
• Liaise virtual appointments between the patient and Nurse Practitioner
• Maintain schedule for HIV and HCV patient follow-up
• Provide health teaching and harm reduction strategies to prevent HCV, HIV and other STBBI
• Collect bloodwork and process for lab pickup and complete POCTs under medical directives
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
• Meet clients in their own space, if that is considered more conducive to the treatment. This includes clients' home, or a shelter.
• Ability to maintain complete and accurate records in accordance with the CNO and Organizations' policies.

Due to the highly independent and self-directed nature of this work:

• The candidate will ensure adherence to the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) Code of Conduct and ensure that all nursing practices align with the CNO's practice standards to maintain professional accountability and ethical integrity in all interactions with clients, colleagues, and the public.
• Demonstrate a commitment to upholding the highest standards of practice by integrating the Code of Conduct and related CNO standards into daily clinical decision-making and care delivery.
• Manage professionalism concerns or complaints in accordance with CNO guidelines, ensuring timely and accurate reporting of any issues, including addressing and resolving professional conduct matters as required by CNO regulations.
• Actively participate in the performance appraisal process, including…